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“Not to sound naive or anything but I believe President Xi meant every word of what he said at our long and hopefully historic meeting. ALL subjects discussed!” the President of the United States tweeted Wednesday morning, one day after his previous boasts about those talks helped sink U.S. stock markets.
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The stock market took a dive after President Donald Trump’s tough talk on trade with China, dragging down media and tech shares along with many other sectors.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 799.36 points, or 3%. It is now just above the 25,000-point milestone. The damage was worse on a percentage basis for the N…

President Donald Trump kicked off the week tweeting about his “extraordinary” meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit, his “very strong and personal relationship” with Xi, describing himself and XI as “the only two people” in the world who “can bring about massive and very positive change” on trade…

John Oliver and his Last Week Tonight found themselves censored in China last week after the host made some biting comments about PROC President Xi Jinping. Both Oliver and the HBO show were banned on the Weibo microblogging platform with attempts to create posts using the words "John Oliver" resulting in error…

Donald Trump famously sued HBO’s Bill Maher when the Real Time host suggested the orange- and-thin-skinned future president was the offspring of an orangutan, and now John Oliver, host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight, has gotten himself in dutch with a world leader for bear comparisons.
Well, not just any foreign leader…

When Chinaabolished the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television last week, state media said a proposed new body overseeing radio and TV management would fall directly under the State Council, i.e., more firmly under the thumb of the Communist Party. But a question mark was left over…

China is to abolish the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, forming a new agency that will be under the control of the State Council. The move follows the recent and indefinite extension of Xi Jinping’s tenure as President of China. The media authority was formed in 2013 as a means…

LaVar Ball, patriarch of the famed basketball family, has denied that President Donald Trump helped his son, UCLA freshman basketballer LiAngelo Ball, get out of potential shoplifting charges in China.
Speaking to ESPN, LaVar Ball said “everyone” wanted to make it seem like Trump helped the family, and noted that…

Donald Trump, who had tweet-shamed three UCLA basketball players into thanking him for their release from China after being arrested for shoplifting Louis Vuitton sunglasses, this morning tweet-simpered “You are welcome.” He then directed them to thank China’s President Xi Jinping “who made your release possible.”
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EXCLUSIVE: This is an important week for China, and Hollywood. October 18 kicks off the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party. There will be much fanfare, with an opening ceremony broadcast live on China Central Television. The Congress is meant to unveil new leadership and set a blueprint for national…

John Oliver opened the latest edition of his HBO show Last Week Tonight talking about “President Trump: two words give you a sense of impending doom, like ‘Sewage Enima’ or ‘United Airlines’.”
The week saw the spectacular moment when White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer attempted to explain the Trump administration…

The evolution/education of President Donald Trump continues. Today Trump declared NATO to no longer be obsolete – thanks to his having whipped the group into shape.
“I said it was obsolete. It is no longer obsolete,” Trump announced with Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. At a White House presser, Trump said the two…